Than Quotes

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Well done is better than well said.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.